Opportunities and Challenges of HBM Technology in the Era of Large Models


IBM acquires Confluent for $11B at $31/share, enhancing real-time data processing via Apache Kafka to strengthen AI infrastructure, as tech giants compete in data capabilities.....
Over 95% of automakers are heavily investing in AI, but only about 5% are expected to sustain strong investment by 2029. Future leaders will be those effectively integrating AI and commercializing the technology.....
IBM acquires Confluent for $11B in cash to boost cloud data management and AI capabilities, marking one of its largest deals amid digital transformation trends.....
The 2025 Guangming Science City Forum was held in Shenzhen, focusing on intelligent computing power and large model agents. Institutions such as the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology announced four important achievements: the open-source multimodal model Pengcheng Haiwen 2.1 along with its corresponding dataset and toolchain; the domestic 10,000-card inference engine FenixCOS made its debut, supporting large-scale parallelism and efficient switching; the meteorological intelligent agent "Afu" was integrated into Pengcheng CloudBrain III, providing services for the 15th National Games.
According to the Harvard Youth Survey, 59% of American young adults (aged 18-29) are worried about the impact of AI on their career prospects, with 26% considering it a serious threat and only 23% feeling completely unconcerned. Compared to outsourcing (48%) and immigration, young people are more concerned about the employment impact of AI.